Friday, May 11, 2012

Woe to the Impenitent Cities

Woe to the Impenitent Cities

Matthew 11:22 “But
I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre
and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you.”

Matthew 11 :

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Version (NKJV)

1:16
“But
to what shall I liken this generation? It is like children sitting in the
marketplaces and calling to their companions,

17
and
saying:

‘We
played the flute for you,And you did not dance;We mourned to you,And you did not lament.’

18 For John came neither eating nor drinking,
and they say, ‘He has a demon.’

19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking,
and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of tax collectors and
sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

Woe to
the Impenitent Cities

20
Then He began to rebuke the cities in which most of His mighty
works had been done, because they did not repent:

21
“Woe
to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works
which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented
long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

22
But
I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment
than for you.

23
And
you, Capernaum, who are exalted to
heaven, will be brought down to Hades; for if the mighty works which were done
in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained
until this day.

24
But
I say to you that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment
than for you.”

Jesus
Gives True Rest

25
At that time Jesus answered and said, “I thank You, Father, Lord
of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and
prudent and have revealed them to babes.

26
Even
so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight.

27
All
things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except
the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one
to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.

28
Come
to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

29
Take
My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you
will find rest for your souls.

30
For
My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

Romans 1

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The Just
Live by Faith

1:16 For I am not
ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for
everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.

17 For in it the
righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by
faith.”

God’s
Wrath on Unrighteousness

18 For the wrath of
God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men,
who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because what may
be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them.

20 For since the
creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being
understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and
Godhead, so that they are without excuse,

21 because, although
they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but
became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

22 Professing to be
wise, they became fools,

23 and changed the
glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man—and
birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.

24 Therefore God also
gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their
bodies among themselves,

25 who exchanged the
truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the
Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

26 For this reason
God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural
use for what is against nature.

27 Likewise also the
men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one
another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves
the penalty of their error which was due.

28 And even as they
did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a
debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

29 being filled with
all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness,
maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they
are whisperers,

32 who, knowing the
righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of
death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.

Colossians 3

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Not
Carnality but Christ

3:1 If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which
are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.

2 Set your mind on things above, not on
things on the earth.

3 For you died, and your life is hidden with
Christ in God.

4 When Christ who is our life appears,
then you also will appear with Him in glory.

5 Therefore put to
death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion,
evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

6 Because of these
things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience,

7 in which you
yourselves once walked when you lived in them.

8 But now you
yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy
language out of your mouth.

9 Do not lie to one another, since you have
put off the old man with his deeds,

10 and have put on the new man who is
renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,

11 where there is
neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian,
slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all.

KJV

1
Corinthians 2:14

But the
natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are
foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually
discerned.

1
Corinthians 3:19

For the
wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the
wise in their own craftiness.

1 Corinthians 1

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Sectarianism
Is Sin

1:10 Now I plead with
you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the
same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that
you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

11 For it has been
declared to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe’s household,
that there are contentions among you.

12 Now I say this,
that each of you says, “I am of Paul,” or “I am of Apollos,” or “I am of
Cephas,” or “I am of Christ.”

13 Is Christ
divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

14 I thank God that
I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,

15 lest anyone
should say that I had baptized in my own name.

16 Yes, I also
baptized the household of Stephanas. Besides, I do not know whether I baptized
any other.

17 For Christ did
not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words,
lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.

Christ
the Power and Wisdom of God

18 For the message
of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being
saved it is the power of God.

19 For it is
written:

“I
will destroy the wisdom of the wise,And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.”

20 Where is the wise? Where is the
scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the
wisdom of this world?

21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world
through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the
message preached to save those who believe.

22 For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek
after wisdom;

23 but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews
a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness,

24 but to those who are called, both Jews and
Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser
than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

Glory
Only in the Lord

26 For you see your
calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty,
not many noble, are called.

27 But God has
chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has
chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are
mighty;

28 and the base
things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the
things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are,

29 that no flesh
should glory in His presence.

30 But of Him you
are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and
sanctification and redemption—

31 that, as it is
written, “He who glories, let him glory in the Lord.”

The
LORD Most High God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, also known as Jesus of
Nazareth.

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My mother is
81 this year and she said that in all her years of Christian ministry and while studying
at TrinityTheologicalCollege, she has never had to confront
with the issue of "gay people". She told me that it was just normally
understood by all her peers as something that cannot be.

For those men or women who do not want to get married
to the opposite sex but want to stay together with the member of their own sex. Marriage does not make a wrong thing
right. It is simply unnatural in the sight of the LORD Most High, your creator.

I can only see two options for gay people to turn
back to the LORD. Overcome yourself or become brothers for life. The
second option is because you have hardened your heart against GOD and being
with a member of the opposite sex had become appalling to you.

1) Pray to the LORD to help you overcome your
struggle to be free from this unnatural desire. The LORD is able to help you if
you only ask of Him with a repentant heart. There may be painful struggle
against yourself and it might take a long time or short period of time but rest
assured the LORD is able to help you overcome.

2) If you claim to be truly caring for the person
of the same sex and want to be faithful to that person for life, between man
and man - become brothers (female & female - sisters) for life (staying
together as brothers or sisters without committing homosexual acts) and go to a
lawyer to draw up a “will” to let him or her inherit everything that you have
and vice versa instead of getting married - as such marriage is not natural and unlawful in
the sight of GOD. (Same goes for people who commit sexual acts with animals..... if a man loves his goat so much that he wants to marry it, is he allowed to do that?)

Acts of homosexuality itself is against both nature
and GOD. The Lord had sent plagues, but still you did not stop. AIDS, colon
infection or your entire colon dropping out and various sexually transmitted
diseases.

A
heterosexual person committing adultery and fornication is no better than a gay
person. An evil witch
seducing a powerful man in order to marry him for his status is worse than a
gay couple seeking to get married.